The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-28

iation and disgrace. II was the Republican
that's where the two parties during
the war. So, after the war, what
then was donel The Republican party organ
ized that magnificent scheme of protection of
American industries. Until '6I this doctrine OF
protection of American labor was only side
issue between the two parties, the Wings and
the Democrats, and the system of protection
was never established: but when the Repub-
Iican party, representing in its elements all the
vigorous life of the old parties, organized this
magnificent scheme of protection, it did more for
the laboring men than all the other measures
can la voice, "Or Wilt Yes, or will.
What was that scheme2 1t was this. That
while we were importing goods from foreign
countries which come into competition with our
own industries, we should discriminate in the
levying of duties as to impose reasonable pro-
tective duty articles that could be-
featured in this country, for whose manufacture
we had the raw material But I'll not delay to
talk on this familiar topic, for you read bet
ter expositions of it than can make, in various
forms in the public prints
The results of the system of protection2 In
1850 the real manufacturers of the United States
of America, including blacksmithing and the or
binary vocations carried on here at home,
amounted to eighteen hundred million dollars.
Under the protective system, established and
maintained by the Republican party, opposed In
all its stages by the Democratic party-I know
that, because was there and aided in the franz
ing of those laws, and know they were passed
by Republicans only-we so prospered and in
creased our domestic manufactures in this coun-
try that In 1880 twenty years after, when the
census came to be taken on the amount OF do
nestle manufactures 1t reached the enormous
sum Of ffty-five hundred millions of dollars.
In 1860, at the close of Democratic times. we
imported nearly all the tools Of trade, nearly all
she tools of the workmen, the carpenters
planes, the saws, and files, and axes, and ham
mers. and anvils. and all the tools ordinarily
l. -
ported these from foreign countries; but under
this protective system such progress has been
made that we now in this country make every
thing necessary for mans use-great machines,
enormous engines, which supply the motive
power of our productive casses-these great
strong arms of iron and steel which now move
the wheels of the universe of industry. All
these are now made at home, and not only that
but we send them abroad
Now. my friends, our importations nearly
all OF articles of luxury, consumed by the rich
scarcely anything necessary for the sustenance
of human life being affected by the import duty,
Che wines. the brandies, the champagnes and
'Sther Injuries consumed only by the few. They
are the articles which the greater portion of
the import duties are levied not the articles
which the lahorng men need and must have of
necessity.
We also lew duty on all articles which come
into compel. n with our home industries
That is the { nd and noble policy of the Re-
publican party by which you are now able to
carry on your industries and earn fair wages for
honest labor. There's another thing
Prior to to 1860. when the Democratic party
went out Of power. our public land was given
over to the railroads, or was sold for money to
the Spectator, and distinction WAS made be-
tween the man who wished to erect his little
homo the public land and the man who
wished to speculate with it. It was sold at the
same price to the Spectator as to the honest
man who wished to plant his home in the wilds
of the West
Why was it that under the old Democratic
regime you couldn't have homestead law, or
some means by which the honest man could 60
with his wife and children, and there get him.
self q home, without money and without pricef
Simply because In tho good old Democratic
times they took such q view of the constitu-
tional powers of the government that they
didn't believe it was constitutional to do it, and
two Democratic Presidents. Polk and Buchanan,
vetoed homestead bill No sooner, however,
did the Republican party come into power than
among its first acts WAS the passage OF a home
stead law, and that act made operative by
the signature of Abraham Lincoln.
Here was . measure that conferred upon the
laboring mon OF this country not perhaps on the
mechanics. but on the farmers and those who
sought to make their living by the cultivation of
the soil. nm untold benefit that has never per-
haps been measured and tested; but it is fact
that that there is now more wheat and cereals
produced on thee lands thus settled under the
homestead act than we're produced in all the
Another thing, my countrymen in which the
people of Ohio and all the West especially
interested. Why was it t,at in the good old
Democratic times we never had any good money
ANY SOUND currencyf 1t was because we
conldn't have it; because the Democrats though,
1T was against the Constitution of the United
States to Issue PAPER money or any other kind OF
currency. and all they could do was to coin gold
and silver. and of that there wasn't enough te
20 around They allowed the States to issue
''shnplasters' flaughter. and they used all over
the country all sorts of money, rag tag and bob
tail.
In Cuba or my visit found the same kind o.
money we used to have in the good old Demo
cratic times still in circulation. l brough
one of those bills with 1t is printed
on a small scale. as you see. Here the Senato
exhibited Cuban ''shinpiaster" all ragged AM
worn. Do you recognize its kind2 1t calls TO
so cents. and is called there peso" and it is
''piece OIL"
Now the first thing did over in Cuba and al
Yankees are successful about such things-the,
call US all Yankees down there-was to expent
$40 and get $24 of this kind of peso. The bill
have here is half peso. so cents and fel
all the time that ! was buying their trinket
there that was robbng the merchants by usin
this good old Democratic money To counter
felt this money over there is death. Oh, yo
needn't laugh about it, for you'd get into troubi
if you went to Cuba and tried to counter
felt it. That's the kind of money we had in tn
good old Democratic times" Regular Demo
cratic paper money. sometimes worth somethin
and sometimes worth nothing.
In those good old Democratic days everyon
was compelled to sell his labor for this sort
money, and, travelling from State to State, h
had to change it ut each State-line crossing, fo
each State had its money in the good oil
Democratic times, and one had to carry a boo
as big the New Testament to tell whether
was counterfeit OF not
Why couldn't we have good money in thof
Democratic daysl Because the Democrats ha
such narrow notions of the pow er Of the natl OF
al government that they thought it was aginitf
Constitution to furnish the people good mon ey
When the Republican party came into powe
though they devised the greenbacks, and printe
them. and stamped them with the great eagle
the United States of America.
We issued them; paid soldiers wi,
them; carried on the operations of the wa